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Michel Gelobter

Michel Gelobter is chief green officer at Hara and one of the country's leading sustainability and climate strategists, having worked for more than 25 years in business, policy, research, and advocacy on energy, environmental, and social policy.

Michel Gelobter is chief green officer at Hara and one of the country's leading sustainability and climate strategists, having worked for more than 25 years in business, policy, research, and advocacy on energy, environmental, and social policy.

Michel is founder and chairman of the board of Cooler, a for-profit social venture whose mission is to connect every consumer purchase to a solution for global warming. Prior to Cooler, Michel was president of Redefining Progress, the think-tank that helped design the world's most aggressive climate legislation which was signed into California law in August of 2006.

Michel also founded and directed the Environmental Policy Program at Columbia University, worked as a Congressional Black Caucus Fellow as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, was director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York, and served as an assistant commissioner for its Department of Environmental Protection. He is also a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ceres.

Despite all the buzz these days about social networks, it's easy to forget that they're just part of the world's largest business -- energy -- and that the Googles, Apples and Facebooks of the world are just starting to exploit the green potential of the energy network.